Improvement in molded cloth and paper collars



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON S. GRAY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOLDED CLOTH AND PAPER COLLARS..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 l,294,"ated January19, 1864; antedated January 17, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON S. GRAY, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand Oommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Cloth and Paper Shirt-Collars; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theacforming a part of this Specification.

The drawing represents a perspective View of the collar as fastenedround a persons neck.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvement, Iwill now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

My invention relates to what is known as cloth and paper77shirt-collars, or shirt-eollars made of a fabric composed of paper andcloth pasted or united together. All collars of this material hithertoconstructed have been iiat strips without curve or angle in their sides;and the trouble with such collars has been that, owing to thestraightness of their sides, they nt too closely round a persons neck,and cut and ehafe the skin with their upper edges, while at the sametime,from the -same cause-1'.. c. the straightness of the collars7sides-a necktie or handkerchief around them is liable to slip up unlessconfined by a pin.

The nature of my invention, therefore, consists in making the saidcollars with a curve or angle in their sides anda Somewhat daring top,so as t0 have the shape of a perfect linen collar.

I make my collars of .any desirable style, and confine them to the shirtby means of butt0n-holes c in the usual manner.

. In the rst place the collar with its button-v holes is out or punched,with suitable knives or dies, from aflat piece of the cloth and papermaterial, and is consequently flat or straight sided, like all the clothand paper collars now in general use; butin Order to give the upperpart, A, from the line d, the desirable flare, as shown in the drawingand for the objects specified above, I press, roll, or hammer it out.The lower part, B, may be either flat, as represented in the drawing, Ormade a little flaring, if desirabe; or instead of the angle d the sideof the collar may have a gradual curve.

There are various ways in which the material may be shaped; but toperform the operation most effeetually and rapidly, I make use of a dieor former-such as is generally used for striking up or forming sheet-tinand other metals. The cut-out collar being placed in the machine asingle blow or pressure permanently expands and gives it the requisiteform.

I am thus enabled to produceacollar of this cheap material shapedexactly like the nicest linen collars, in which the lower part, B, is aseparate piece of cloth sewed to the upper part, A, the latter beingconcave at the bottom in order to give the requisite flare to the collarand cause it to stand out from the wearer7s neck, and also keep the tieor handkerchief from slipping up.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, a cloth and paper shirt-collar struckup7 or pressed from a flat piece into any desirable form, substantiallyas described and for the objects specified.

l SOLOMON S. GRAY. Witnesses:

N. AMEs, N. EVANS, J r.

